​Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer

“I’d like readers to read Abundance...because if they did that, they would see that while the headlines are really bad in the world today, the trend lines are pretty good. Extreme poverty is down. [H]ealth care is improving dramatically around the world. There are developments now which make me believe we might be able to do what we did in the 90s which is use technological developments to create more jobs than we lose. For the last few months, for the first time in literally more than a decade, 40% of the new jobs have been in higher wage categories. I think people should read this and get some good ideas.” —President Bill Clinton

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler 

Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffett

Non Zero — The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright​

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney.

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr.

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century by David Fromkin

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English: President Bill Clinton brought delegates to their feet with an impassioned appeal on behalf of his wife on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia (A. Shaker/VOA)

William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
2. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.
3. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch.
4. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
5. The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
6. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
8. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.
9. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.
10. The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley.
11. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron.
12. Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber.
13. You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe.
14. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats.​
15. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
16. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
17. House of Spies by Daniel Silva
18. A Great Reckoning: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
19. Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
20. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir by Carly Simon
21. Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy
22. High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel
23. Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
24. Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes by Jim Ferraro
25. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid​​
26. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
27. War Chief of the Seminoles by May McNeer
28. Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce by Dean Pollock​
29. The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber​

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Source:

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-clintons-21-favorite-books/
2. ​https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/12/bill-clintons-five-favorite-dense-history-books/334054/
3. President Bill Clinton 12 book recommendations on Facebook
4. https://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2011/12/bill-clintons-must-read-books-108212
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/summer-reading-favorite-books-of-bill-clinton-bill-gates/2011/06/24/AGtigAlH_blog.html?utm_term=.f0b197c9b2dd
6. https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/bill-clinton-recommended-books
7. https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clintons-favorite-books-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T
8. ​https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Bill_Clinton_%2830349165325%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
9. https://web.archive.org/web/20090621212558/http://pppl.tblc.lib.fl.us:80/favor.html
   

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